Anyone who’s read this site for some time knows my feelings on
\ndeath metal. For the most part, I like it (even if I don’t always
\nagree with some of the messages in the lyrics), but I’ve felt of
\nlate that the whole genre has been stagnating.<\/p>\n
Boy, now I wish I had listened to
\nResurrection<\/i> from Sweden’s own Godgory three years ago, when
\nthis disc came out. It might just have made me born again in my
\nbelief in the creativeness of death metal.<\/p>\n
On the surface, you could be forgiven if you weren’t immediately
\nstruck with awe. When you find out the band consists of two core
\nmembers – vocalist Matte Andersson and drummer Erik Andersson – and
\nsession musicians, it’s easy to assume that there won’t be much
\nsubstance to this music.<\/p>\n
Ah, but then Godgory gets things moving with – acoustic guitars?
\nWhispered, somewhat intelligible vocals? Using lightning-fast speed
\nonly on occasion?
\nThis<\/i> is death metal? Damn right it is, and it’s impressive,
\ntoo.<\/p>\n
If Godgory do one thing right, it’s that they take the focus
\naway from either the music or the lyrics, and focus on the entire
\nmood of a song. It might sound far-fetched, but listen to tracks
\nlike “Adultery,” “Collector Of Tears” or the title track, and
\nyou’ll discover that Godgory knows exactly what they’re doing. More
\nimportantly, they do it well – so well, in fact, that you don’t
\nhave to strictly focus in on the music or the lyrics, and you
\neasily find yourself caught up in the whole song. (By the way, the
\nuse of acoustic guitars is well-balanced, and even adds a further
\nsense of doom at times.)<\/p>\n
One can’t even fault their cover of Accept’s “Princess Of The
\nDawn,” truly making this one their own by adding these same touches
\nmusically. All around, this is a very solid effort from Godgory,
\nand
\nResurrection<\/i> deserves to be discovered and revered, even if
\nI’m doing so three years late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6778],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-37455","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-godgory","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37455"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37455"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}